2011 Holiday Food and Wine Pairing Cinnabar Wines with Semi-Homemade Foods Beginning in 2002, our annual holiday food and wine story has covered a variety of angles including tips for pairing wine with food , cooking with wine, navigating holiday food and wine mishaps, and even our own version of a winemaker dinner.

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2011 Holiday Food and Wine

On Nov. 12, Clos LaChance will be participating in Morgan Run-Club and Resort’s Wine Festival.

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Nov. 12: CLC Wine Festival in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Everyone here at CLC is so thankful for all our Wine Club Members, it is only appropriate to throw a “Thanksgiving” Pick-up Party. Please join us on Nov. 5th and 6th at this very special event

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Nov. 5 and 6: Wine Club Pick-up Party

I began cultivating relationships with grape growers in 1996 while sourcing fruit for Xcellence, our red blend that was later renamed Mercury Rising . Cinnabar had been making wine exclusively from estate fruit since 1986, but Xcellence’s popularity warranted supplementary fruit.

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Establishing Good Relationships with Grape Growers

Congratulations to winemaker George Troquato for high scores from Wine Enthusiast Magazine, June, 2011 issue! 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Santa Cruz Mountains 2007 Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains Editors’ Choice, 2008 Mercury Rising

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Wine Enthusiast Magazine Wine Scores for June

Sixth in a Six-part Series. In this final segment of our series on the seasonal work of a winemaker, I cover the months of May and June.

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A Day in the Life of a Winemaker: May – June

Fifth in a Six-part Series.

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A Day in the Life of a Winemaker: March and April

In this second installment of our series describing the seasonal work of a winemaker , I cover the most exciting time of year: the September–October harvest. Some call crush the “Super Bowl of winemaking”; others say it’s the culmination of a year’s work.

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A Day in the Life of a Winemaker: September and October

Most people know that winemakers crush grapes and ferment wine in the fall, but I am often asked, “What do you do the rest of the year?” The short answer is, “I drink a lot of wine”.

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A Day in the Life of a Winemaker: July and August

Last week, Blake Gray wrote a blog about exactly why Amazon.com pulled out completely of wine sales. It got me thinking about the long road that Amazon has gone through to come to this point. I first remember hearing about this well over a year ago….

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Amazon.com out of wine